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Le Loi
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Le Loi

Lê Lợi (Lê Thái Tổ)
🇻🇳 Dai Viet
1385 – 1433 (48 years old)

Vietnamese national hero and founder of the Later Le Dynasty who led the ten-year Lam Son Uprising against Ming Chinese occupation, immortalized by the Legend of the Returned Sword at Hoan Kiem Lake.

Tho Xuan (Thanh Hoa), Vietnam
Zheng He
Military Leaders & Strategists
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Zheng He

郑和 (三宝太监)
🌐 Ming Dynasty
1371 – c. 1433 CE (62 years old)

Ming Dynasty grand admiral and diplomat who commanded seven epic treasure fleet voyages across the Indian Ocean from Southeast Asia to Arabia and East Africa, decades before Columbus.

Nanjing (Jiangsu), China
Tamerlane (Timur)
Military Leaders & Strategists
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Tamerlane (Timur)

تیمور لنگ (Timūr Gurkānī)
🇺🇿 Chagatai Khanate
1336 – 1405 (68 years old)

Turco-Mongol conqueror and founder of the Timurid Empire who never lost a battle across forty years of campaigns from Delhi to the Mediterranean, transforming Samarkand into a Renaissance jewel.

Samarkand, Uzbekistan
Murad I
Military Leaders & Strategists
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Murad I

مراد الأول (Hüdavendigâr)
🇹🇷 Ottoman Beylik
1326 – 1389 (62 years old)

Third Ottoman Sultan who transformed the Ottoman state into an empire, instituted the Devshirme and Janissary corps, conquered Adrianople (Edirne), and died victorious at the Battle of Kosovo in 1389.

Bursa (and Pristina Cenotaph), Turkey
Orhan
Military Leaders & Strategists
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Orhan

أورخان غازي (Orhan Gazi)
🇹🇷 Ottoman Beylik
c. 1281 CE – 1362 (81 years old)

Second ruler of the Ottoman dynasty who captured Bursa, Nicaea, and Nicomedia, established the first Ottoman standing army (Janissaries), and crossed into Europe at Gallipoli in 1354.

Tophane Park (Bursa), Turkey
Osman I
Military Leaders & Strategists
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Osman I

عثمان بن أرطغرل (عثمان غازي)
🇹🇷 Sultanate of Rum
c. 1258 CE – c. 1324 CE (66 years old)

Founder of the Ottoman Empire and first ruler of the Ottoman dynasty, who expanded his small Turkmen principality in Sogut against the Byzantine Empire and had the prophetic 'Osman's Dream'.

Tophane Park (Bursa), Turkey
Baibars
Military Leaders & Strategists
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Baibars

الملك الظاهر ركن الدين بيبرس البندقداري
🇰🇿 Desht-i Qipchaq (now Kazakhstan)
c. 1223 CE – 1277 (54 years old)

Fourth Mamluk Sultan of Egypt and Syria who crushed King Louis IX at Fariskur, commanded the vanguard that defeated the Mongols at Ain Jalut, and dismantled Crusader castles across the Levant.

Damascus, Syria
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